Why do so many adventure movies seem to have the same story? A lot of the blame goes to the Hero’s Journey, a cookie-cutter spiritual-ish adventure recipe concocted by Joseph Campbell in 1949. Star Wars and many fantasy sagas famously follow this treasure map step by step, but how do other science fiction stories measure up? We score scifi stories on our “Hero’s Journey” checklist, after the jump.
https://gizmodo.com/when-adventure-becomes-repetitive-341233
